Labor
Teachers protest power play by chancellor
October 9, 2009Two blocks from the White House, hundreds of Washington D.C. public school teachers, parents, students and labor activists today responded with a resounding “no” to what many see as a brutal power grab by the Chancellor...
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Workers charge Red Cross with unfair labor practices
October 9, 2009ST. LOUIS – “I’ve worked 96 hours in a single week,” Jason Withey, a Red Cross driver from Buffalo, N.Y., told the World here on Oct. 8. “I could live better working at Wal-Mart.”
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Thompson: Treatment of Stella d’Oro workers ‘disgraceful’
October 9, 2009Brynwood Partners, which owns cookie-manufacturer Stella d’Oro has drawn the ire of city Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, who said the private equity firm’s actions are “disgraceful.
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Farmworkers seek justice for tobacco cutters
October 8, 2009Hundreds of delegates with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) convened in Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 3, during their 11th national convention.
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Labor turns up the heat on health care
October 6, 2009Labor leaders converge on Washington D. C. for days of lobbying for a public option.
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